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There's a very simple reason we're not marrying: we don't want to be held financially responsible for our spouse's student loans.
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
There's a very simple reason we're not marrying: we don't want to be held financially responsible for our spouse's student loans.
- dangerlibrary 10y agoYep. I am a recently married millennial. We dated for 5 years and deliberately delayed our legal marriage because of student loan debt.
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- imaginenore 10y agoAnd not just the loans. Marriage is heavily stacked in the favor of women and the slides who make less money. More and more men just don't see the upside. And what are the actual upsides? Visitation rights. Medical decision rights. Slightly lower taxes. Not testifying against your spouse. Anything else?
- jacalata 10y agoIt turns out that the benefits of legal marriage have been carefully enumerated during the movement for legal gay marriage, so it's pretty easy to look this up. Here's a report from the federal government enumerating all the federal laws around marriage: http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf